Some celebrated Irish beauties of the last century . otage, that still harps on conjunctionscopulative, but now disavows on a remonstrance from her daughter.—Hoiace Walpoles letter to Hon. H. Conway, August 9, 1790. ^ This was Gertrude, the old Hoyden of Bloomsbury (see page 87).Her daughter had married George, Duke of Marlborough, in 1762 ; theMarquis of Blandford was twenty-five. The old duchess had still witenough to be exceedingly mischievous. She was a scandal-loving, be-rouged, card-playing old dame, such as Richardson loved to she was vice-queen in Dublin she would go to anyo
Some celebrated Irish beauties of the last century . otage, that still harps on conjunctionscopulative, but now disavows on a remonstrance from her daughter.—Hoiace Walpoles letter to Hon. H. Conway, August 9, 1790. ^ This was Gertrude, the old Hoyden of Bloomsbury (see page 87).Her daughter had married George, Duke of Marlborough, in 1762 ; theMarquis of Blandford was twenty-five. The old duchess had still witenough to be exceedingly mischievous. She was a scandal-loving, be-rouged, card-playing old dame, such as Richardson loved to she was vice-queen in Dublin she would go to anyone for a gameof quadrille, and she was never so happy as when in the midst of anintrigue or match-making. T04 So77ie Ccleb7ated Irish Beauties of Last Century. his family was equal to that of the descendants of a soldierof fortune like Churchill, published in the papers that he was32nd in descent from Charlemagne. Walpole, in his sarcasticway, comments on this act of folly :— He had better like Priors, Madam,To cut tilings short, go up to GUyiLDA -? GUNNING. At last it entered the head of the Carlovingian Hero, asWalpole styles the general^ to suspect that something waswrong. It was either a tricky or they were the compositionsof his wife, the Minifie novelist.^ He inclined to the latter * Miss Minifie and her sisters had been joint authoresses of severalsentimental novels. Mrs. Gunning, after the denouement of herdaughters extraordinary history, gave the world a novel in fourvolumes called Mary. This is written after the manner of Evelina,in letters, but without the charm that makes that obsolete stylebearable. Mary, however, owing to the circumstances under whichit saw the light, ran into three editions. General Gunning and his Daugliter Gnnilda. 105 supposition, and on another supposed love letter arriving, heexamined it closely, and found that it had been altered andinterlined; whereupon, thinking this was confirmation of hissuspicions, he, in his impetuous Irish
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